NY Housing Market Visualization Analysis
Summary:
Multi-layered exploration of visualization ethics using both truthful and manipulative techniques on housing data to demonstrate how design choices influence data narratives.
Goal:
Explore how visualization design choices influence data narratives by creating both truthful and manipulative representations of the same housing dataset to demonstrate the ethical responsibility of data storytelling.
My Contribution:
Designed a visualization iteration, analyzing 4,800+ properties, created scatter plots with logarithmic scaling for truthful representations.
Skills Gained:
Tableau, Python, Statistical Analysis, Data Ethics, Visualization Design, Critical Thinking, and understanding that designers have enormous influence over perception through choices like bin sizing, color selection, and axis scaling.
Project Materials:
The Medium Post for our design document
